Well, with Jackson, I would be okay with one 3 hour movie, given his predilections, but -- yeah -- two hours would be enough to get the whole story in, if done right. I am still going to go see it, as the family is chomping at the bit, but I'm not going to be expecting anything wonderful, given the reviews you linked to.
Oh! My other grandson (the one in Texas) requested the LoTR trilogy for his Christmas present. I'm thinking of getting him the boxed set, with The Hobbit included. He's ten. I was quite pleased to see him into classic fantasy. Griffin, who lives with me, is not quite up to LoTR weight, but he's enjoying the heck out of The Hobbit. Bruce said that if I hadn't given him the one-volume Red Book edition as a wedding present, he'd have sent that down to Texas, but he's not giving that away. :-)
Um. Scattered thought -- I know you mentioned in a previous post that you think the movies will mar the collective visualization of readers, but I am not sure of that. My visualizations managed to survive the Brothers Hildebrandt calendars and the Rankin-Bass movies just fine, and I don't see Aragorn as Viggo Mortensen, etc. Maybe it's because I read the books thirty years before the movies came out, or because I'm not a visual reader (i.e., I don't visualize characters in my head while I am reading) -- but it's a data point I thought I'd share.
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Date: 2012-12-10 09:24 pm (UTC)Oh! My other grandson (the one in Texas) requested the LoTR trilogy for his Christmas present. I'm thinking of getting him the boxed set, with The Hobbit included. He's ten. I was quite pleased to see him into classic fantasy. Griffin, who lives with me, is not quite up to LoTR weight, but he's enjoying the heck out of The Hobbit. Bruce said that if I hadn't given him the one-volume Red Book edition as a wedding present, he'd have sent that down to Texas, but he's not giving that away. :-)
Um. Scattered thought -- I know you mentioned in a previous post that you think the movies will mar the collective visualization of readers, but I am not sure of that. My visualizations managed to survive the Brothers Hildebrandt calendars and the Rankin-Bass movies just fine, and I don't see Aragorn as Viggo Mortensen, etc. Maybe it's because I read the books thirty years before the movies came out, or because I'm not a visual reader (i.e., I don't visualize characters in my head while I am reading) -- but it's a data point I thought I'd share.